Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-01
A SECOND ENOCH ARDEN.
A Prominent Man Disappears, and After
Twenty Years Returns to Find His Wife Mar
ried to Another Man.

Twenty Years Returns to Find His Wife Mar
ried to Another Man.
Ohio State Journal.
In 1856 Cloyce Wilson was one Of the
most popular and best known politicians
in Hapcock County, Ohio, and was elected
to the office OF Sheriff in that year, a
place which he filled for one term, and,
declining denomination, retired from
the Office followed by the best wishes of
his friends regardless of party. He was
man of family, had pleasant home
ard was possessed of some property, and
his only failing was a fondness for the
seductive game of "pOker," vice which
he cultivated with considerable assidu-
ity.
Without q word of warning one day in
December, 1869, Cloyce Wilson disap-
peared as suddenly and as mysteriously
as though the ground had opened and
swallowed him up and closed again, leav-
ing no sign by which his fate could be as
certained. His wife and friends set on
foot Investigations and search was in
stituted, but nothing concerning his
whereabouts was ever obtained and his
deserted wife and children united with
his fellow-citizens in the conclusion that
| he had been murdered for a sum OF mon
ely he was known to possess.
Time passed on, and Findlay people,
who at that period occasionally wandered
beyond the confines of Hancock County,
came back with stories that CIoyce Will
SOL had been killed in card-room at
| Springfield: others saw him in the Wild
| West, and some pretended to have met
him in the Sunny Southland, but not
much credence was given these rumors
by his deserted wife who firmly belived
| him dead.
In June, 1876, Mrs. Wilson was startled
by receiving q letter from her husband
she had married again III the interim
saying he would be home oD certain
Saturday night, but if he failed to come
al that time not to be uneasy about him
as he would be home few days later.
The letter contained nothing further,
Wilson saying nothing of why he had
gone away so uncerimoniously and MAX
ing no excuse for his conduct. The feel
ings of the poor woman, with a second
edition of "Enoch Arden" on her hands,
can be imagined but not described.
Fortunately for all concerned Wilson
did not put in an appearance on the date
he was billed for, and nothing more was
heard of him. Mrs. Wilson, now Mrs.
Hyatt, removed to Cleveland, and her two
daughters, grown to womanhood, married
well and set up establishments Of their
own, with only hazy recollections Of their
father.
Interest in the whole affair died out,
and with the removal Of Wilson'S former
wife to Cleveland, all the actors in the
drama were forgotten until yesterday,
when Jay Markle, well-known merchant
of this city, met a gentleman who APP
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concerning Findlay and the people who
were prominent here along in the "six-
ties" and ended by asking for informa-
ton regarding Cloyce Wilson, and what
had become Of his family, particularly
his daughters. Mr.. Markle answered all
the strangers inquiries and then truned
interviewer himself, and was rot long In
discovering that he vas face to face with
Cloyce Wilson, a fact the gentleman ac-
knowledged when pressed with such an
inquiry. He would not say anything of
himself; why he had gone away or any
thing of how he had passed the nearly
score of years since he shook the dust Of
Findlay from his feet. He was well
dressed and wore nearly white Burnside
whiskers, style lie affected when Sheriff
of this county.
ter in which he seemed so deeply inter
ested the former Sheriff took the first
train and laft town as mysteriously as
when he had babe the city goodbye In
December, 1869. Whether he went to
Cleveland to see his former wife and
children or returned to the unknown
world in which he has been hidden this
deponent saith not, but taking into con-
sideration the fact that no domestic, So
cial or business reason imr elled him to
take the step he did, and his return TO
his old haunts after the lapse Of these
years, the case is certainly one Of the
querest in this queer world OF ours.
W. K. Vanderbilt has complete col
lection OF Louis Quator1e furniture, pur-
chased at the sale of the private effects
OF the late King Ludgwig. Of Bavaria
William d. Howeils has lost caste IN
Boston through his en6eavors in behalf
OF the Chicago anarchists.